May 31, 2018, 12:07 pm
Women Crime Writers:
Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s
"...a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline.
Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel."
(Library of America)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YKPWMB6/
and of the 1940s
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YKPWMBQ/
Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s
"...a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline.
Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel."
(Library of America)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YKPWMB6/
and of the 1940s
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YKPWMBQ/